NEWRY, Maine — A Finnish couple has added to its victories with a first-place in the North American Wife Carrying Championship at Maine's Sunday River ski resort.

Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveled from Helsinki, Finland — where they won the World Wife Carrying Championship — for Saturday's contest. The couple finished with a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that included hurdles, sand traps and a water hole.

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